Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 26
But Cadmus was more fortunate than many others who went to Delphi in search of truth.
Who acts: Cadmus, many others · What happens: be, go, search · To what, where: Delphi, search, truth
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, many others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 fortunate | cc |
| 2 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fortunate | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fortunate | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 fortunate | advmod |
| 5 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 others | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 others | amod |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fortunate | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 others | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Delphi | case |
| 12 | Delphi | Delphi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 truth | case |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 search | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cadmus | than many others; fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | many others | Delphi | search of truth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to delphi=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | search | truth | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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